"At 11:31:30pm UTC on Feb 13, 2009, Unix time will reach 1,234,567,890. Where will you be at this momentous second?" - from Bell Labs
This will be Friday, February 13th at 1831 and 30 seconds EST (1531 and 30 seconds PST). Now if there was any reason to fear Friday the 13th, I think this is it. That many numbers sequentially in a row representative of time? Who knows what will stop working? Will lex(1) cease to work, will yacc(1)s everywhere revolt? Will the rapture be upon us? I remember asking Alan Cox about UNIX (note that I spelled UNIX in all capital letters, as it should be) time in 1999. I was confident that most UNIX systems would not be adversely affected by "Y2K", but I knew about a hidden time-bomb in the year 2038, when the "UNIX epoch" comes to an end. Alan assured me that Linux was now working on 64-bit time, and its "roll-over" would happen about the time that the sun burnt out. And while this upcoming event is not a "roll-over", nevertheless this coming Friday the 13th I will be holding my breath.... I intend on being at the place where I have the best chance of surviving this potential catastrophe and where I can personally do the most good: =>Martha's Exchange Restaurant in Nashua, New Hampshire, USA<= While our friends at Bell Labs (er, ah, Lucent....O.K. "Alcatel-Lucent") rush to understand this phenomenon, I will be doing my civic duty by drinking fine beer, and maybe an Islay scotch. This is hard to do while you are holding your breath, but I will suffer through. Who knows, perhaps the U.S. government will give us a "bailout" to study this issue. Who will join me as we watch the time of UNIX line up? md _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/